Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Paul Rodgers‘ debut solo DVD, “Live in Glasgow”, on May 29. The 17 songs on it shall also appear in audio format on CD on April 17. “Live in Glasgow” was recorded and shot with 13 cameras in October 2006 in Scotland and includes 135 minutes of music – from […]

Madness are to record a new version of their classic 1980 hit “Baggy Trousers” with rapper Sway. The reworked track will be called “Baggy Jeans” and will be released as a single later this year. Madness and Sway have just released their first collaboration, the single “Sorry”, and plan to experiment with other material, too…

The Bulgarian company Wizard Ltd.В shall represent exclusively the British record label Demolition Records for the territory of Bulgaria. Demoliton is a young but quickly expanding label, home of bands such as W.A.S.P., Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Y&T, Vixen, The Quireboys, Hanoi Rocks, TigerTailz, David Lee Roth, a.o.

Brian “Head” Welch – the original Korn guitarist who quit the band in february 2005 – will release his first book on July 1. Entitled “Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit KoRn, Kicked Speed, and Lived to Tell the Tale”, it is already available to pre-order online for $17.13 via Amazon.com. This […]

A concert in memory of the late Bulgarian musician and showman Kembula shall take place onВ May 5В (Saturday) at the City Square in Kavarna, Bulgaria.В Emil TrifonovВ a.k.a. Kembula diedВ on March 17 in a car crash in Sofia. Bands confirmed to take part in the concert are Hypodil,В SignalВ and B.T.R..

Norwegian singer Vibeke Stene (ex-Tristania) has firmly declined the rumours that she has joined Nightwish as the replacement for Tarja Turunen. According to Stene, “That is not true. I would not want to sing for Nightwish. Tristania’s record label asked me a year ago if it was ok to put out the rumour that I […]

Swedish death’n’roll masters Entombed are to release their new album, “Serpent Saints – The Ten Ammendments”, in June 2007 via the Stockholm-based label Threeman Recordings. This shall be the first full-length studio release by Entombed since 2003’s “Inferno”, and their first record with new drummer Olle Dahlstedt (ex-Misery Loves Co.).

The English music magazine Kerrang! has tallied up the hardest, most legendary rockers of this century and crowned AC/DC’s Angus Young as the top “Rock Icon”, beating some of the biggest names in the business. Here’s the top 10 list of Rock Icons: Angus Young (AC/DC) Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, ex-Nirvana) Billie Joe Armstrong (Green […]

Holyhell is a female-fronted newcomer band that shall release their debut single, “Apocalypse”, on March 23 via Magic Circle Music – the U.S. label known mainly as “home” of Manowar. No wonder that the CD was produced by Joey DeMaio, and that the group was chosen – next to Rhapsody of Fire – as a […]

Italian progressive metallers Eldritch shall release their seventh album, “Blackenday” (view front cover in the left), on April 20 in Europe and on May 8 in the USA via InsideOut Music. The song “Broken Road” features guest appearances by Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Engine, Redemption) and Nicholas Van Dyk (Redemption), while on all the other […]